Scottish composer Ailie Robertson has been awarded 2nd Prize in the prestigious 17th International Edvard Grieg Competition for Composers, for her piece 'Eternal Recurrence'.
Entries from 16 countries (Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, China, Finland, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Iran, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, USA), were received - with the 1st prize given to Vladimir Agopov from Finland, and the 3rd prize to Uno Alexander Vesje from Norway.
Her piece will be performed by Birgitte Volan Håvik, solo harpist of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, at the closing concert of the Oslo Grieg Festival 2013, on Sunday 5th of May, in the National Gallery, Oslo.
This month she was also announced as recipient of a BBC Performing Arts Fund grant to enable her to act as Composer-in-Residence for a year with the Haddington Pipe Band. The £10,000 award, made under the fund's music fellowship scheme, is given to musical organisations to partner with up-and-coming musicians.
Originally from Edinburgh, Ailie is a composer, arranger, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, and after seven years working as a professional touring musician, is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in composition at King's College London.